AUNTIE S.
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2012-09-28 01:42 PM |
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Oooh, stereoptican slides! This is off-topic, but I miss the one my parents had when I was a kid. I used to sit for hours looking at boxes and boxes of slides. BTW The middle picture ;ooks like part of the old Pillsbury Estateand the overhead of Montecito Country Club is great.
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COMMENT 325427
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2012-09-28 02:10 PM |
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Why can't we see some captions with these lovely, wonderful, magnificent photos?
The old Biltmore rock wall. Seeing it sure makes me want to cry. It was such a tragedy when the storm waves destroyed the old wall. A great piece of SB art and craftsmanship was lost when that happened.
My mother used to have a hand-held stereoptican viewer, made of wood. She traded it for a beaded purse. Oops. (Still have an old metal one, though, and loads of "slides.")
Many thanks to the person who shared these special photos.
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COMMENT 325447
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2012-09-28 02:37 PM |
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Love these vintage photos.... keep 'em coming, please.
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COMMENT 325461
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2012-09-28 02:51 PM |
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Epic! MCC with no trees.
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D8VANILLA
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2012-09-28 02:54 PM |
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Thrasher Book store, which is closing in a couple days, has hundreds of vintage post cards for sale. They are on the 800 blk of Santa Barbara St, next to the cheese store and the bakery.
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COMMENT 325485
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2012-09-28 03:22 PM |
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I don't think the aerial photo is Santa Barbara which never that industrial, the street grid is different, and those multi-span bridges in the mid field are really weird. More likely Los Angeles with Mount Wilson in the background.
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COMMENT 325530P
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2012-09-28 04:09 PM |
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To the submitting photo wizard: Your images are bringing huge smiles to my SB granny who is in her last days. If you have more - keep 'em coming! Blessings to you my friend.
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COMMENT 325547
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2012-09-28 04:46 PM |
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Love the Hot Springs picture!
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COMMENT 325557
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2012-09-28 05:00 PM |
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I could look at these old photos forever.....thank you!!!
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COMMENT 325633
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2012-09-28 08:06 PM |
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People that were infirm as well as able came for the Miracle Cure at the Hot Sulphur Springs - a Health resort, maybe photo was taken before the 1871 inferno? - horses and carriages arrived from all over the state, trekked up the dusty, steep, windy, sometimes muddy road to reach the spa -Steve at The Historical Society can show you, @427 more photos with captions!
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COMMENT 325758P
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2012-09-29 08:56 AM |
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Thank you for these - as a relative newcomer to SB, it's great to see the history come alive. (captions would surely help, but the photos are great)
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FLICKA
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2012-09-29 10:00 AM |
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Thanks for sharing your great photos. The Hot Springs "hotel" looked like that in the 1950s when my friends and I often rode our horses past it. Sometimes the caretaker would stand on the proch and wave. I know by that time it had burned and been rebuilt, then it went down for good in the 1964 Coyote Fire.
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JMAC
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2012-09-29 11:00 AM |
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The aerial shot (questioned by 485) might be Bakersfield...HYDRIL Oil Field Equipment has a facility there. Definitely NOT S.B. but I agree - these are wonderful - please keep 'em coming!
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BFMOUNTAIN
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2012-09-29 12:41 PM |
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I think the pic of the trellis with big vine is the Parra Grande grape vine that was cut down and sent to one of the world fairs around 1890. It covered three acres I think.
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COMMENT 326020
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2012-09-29 05:18 PM |
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The "La Parra Granda Grapevine" was cut and shipped away at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It produced for most of a century. Many attributed its supernatural vigor to the magical powers and potent vitality of (hot) spring waters. The vines covered 10,000 sq feet, 7,500 clusters producing 12,000 pounds a year. Today thanks to Land Trust for Santa Barbara County not even the steelhead can benefit by those waters they choose to lock away and in one instance provide to one of the estates pictured above: El Fureidis (Little Paradise or Pleasure Gardens) which receives 18 of the 39 shares of Montecito Creek Water Company (Hot Springs water). In that picture you see Montecito Peak in the Background.
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FLICKA
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2012-09-29 06:10 PM |
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The Parra Grande Grapevine didn't produce for almost a century. It was planted by Marcella Dominguez, wife of one of the Presidio soldiers. The Spanish didn't even get here to found Santa Barbara until April 21,1782.
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COMMENT 326058
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2012-09-29 06:45 PM |
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1801 to 1826 is a plausible date for the planting of the grapevine. Grapes where some of the earliest crops of the Spanish. 1876 - 100 = 1776. 1782 - 1776 = 6 years difference. 1876- 75 = 1801. 75 years is most of a century. You are correct regarding Marcella Dominguez. She had Chumash blood co-mingled with the Spanish as I understand it.
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